After aging American whiskey or bourbon, cask #40 was sold to St Lucia Distillers Limited where it was filled with Vendome Pot Still in February 2005, then refilled in October 2005.
In late 2014, this cask was shipped to the US where it was bottled at full strength without the addition of any water, caramel or flavoring.

This is one of two casks of nine year old St Lucian Pot Still rum bottled as single cask pot still rum in January 2015.

There were 20 cases of Saint Lucia Pot Still 9 Year Old Cask Strength Rum cask #40 bottled.

Item

ABV

Volume

Case

UPC

SL-115-9CS-12-40

65.7%

750ml

12

000513072877

St Lucia is located roughly 1000 miles north of the equator in the Eastern Caribbean island chain.

St Lucia Distiller Ltd is just south of Marigot Bay

The molasses used at St Lucia Distillers was sourced from Guyana and contained 65% dissolved sugar, one of the highest sugar contents of any molasses found in the Caribbean. The high sugar content is attributed to the age of the Guyanese sugar mill.

There are three stills at St Lucia Distillers Ltd. A continuous column still, the Vendome still below and another smaller pot still.Installed in 2002, this Vendome Pot Still has a capacity of about 2000 liters.

The distillate is condensed at about 82% ABV

After distillation, the distillate is collected in large tanks where several batches of distillate are blended. From these tanks, second-use American oak barrels are filled with fresh rum at about 70% ABV. Barrels of rum secured for shipment.

Barrels of rum in the shipping container.

Before a shipment bound for the US can be accepted, an ISF filing must declare shipment details. Here is a look at the required
ISF filing.

From Vieux Fort, St Lucia the container was shipped on the Conrad S to Trinidad where the cargo was transshipped on the Shippan Island to Bridgetown, Barbados then St Johns, Antigua and then on to Redhook Terminal, New York, NY. After being barged to the port in Newark, the container was trucked to the warehouse in South Kearney, NJ.

From the NJ warehouse, the barrels were trucked to Five & 20 Spirits distillery in Westfield, NY for bottling.

Cask 40 was aged nine years at St Lucia Distillers Ltd. These barrels was batched and then bottled at cask strength at Five & 20 Spirits by Joe Nelson. During the three months between shipping and bottling, the alcohol content by volume increased approximately 1% with a corresponding decrease in volume.

click to zoom Barrel 40 was first filled with rum in February 2005 with Vendome Pot Still rum and then refilled in October 2005.

Barrels are emptying using a vacuum pump.Prior to bottling, this blend was filtered with a five micron filter to remove charcoal that may be suspended in the liquid and that might prevent a malfunction in the bottling machine. No flavoring or color was added. Bottles are filled with a six bottle gravity feed filler.Bottles being filledPutting in the synthetic corksFilled bottled being labeled.Finished bottles with capsules and labels56 cases on a pallet ready for shipment to a distributor in your state.

There was no caramel color or flavoring of any kind added to this rum.

There were 20 cases of Saint Lucia Pot Still 9 Year Old Cask Strength Rum cask #40 bottled.